Giovanni Giacomo Monti was an Italian

Italy

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 painter of the Baroque

Baroque

The Baroque is a period and the style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, literature, dance, and music...

 period.

He trained with Agostino Mitelli

Agostino Mitelli

Agostino Mitelli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period and best known as a fresco painter of quadratura or illusionistic perspectival architectural frameworks....

, the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna

Bologna

Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...

. Monti became a colleague of Baldassare Bianchi

Baldassare Bianchi

Baldassare Bianchi was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.He was born in Bologna, and was first a pupil of Giovanni Paderna, but after Paderna's death, he trained with Agostino Mitelli, the pre-eminent quadratura painter from Bologna. Bianchi married Mitelli's daughter. Bianchi became a...

, Mitelli's son-in-law. This partnership also met with success particularly at Mantua

Mantua

Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole...

, where they both received regular salaries from the Ducal Court. Their figure-painter was Giovanni Battista Caccioli

Giovanni Battista Caccioli

Giovanni Battista Caccioli was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.Caccioli was born in Budrio and trained in Bologna, where he was a figure painter for the collaborative effort in quadratura of Giovanni Giacomo Monti and Baldassare Bianchi....

 of Budrio

Budrio

Budrio is a town and comune in the province of Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy; it is located 15 km E of Bologna.Budrio has two high schools, including a lyceum, a post office, banks, a communal theatre, a swimming pool and several squares...

, pupil to Domenico Maria Canuti

Domenico Maria Canuti

Domenico Maria Canuti was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Bologna and Rome.Born in Bologna, Canuti first trained in that city under Guido Reni, then with Guercino. He painted many ceiling and wall frescoes...

 and a follower of Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani

Carlo Cignani was an Italian painter of the Bolognese and of the Forlivese school, active in the Baroque period....

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